A history of optics from Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century / Olivier Darrigol.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2012.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Conventions and notations. 1. From the Greeks to Kepler 2. Mechanical medium theories of the seventeenth century 3. Newton's optics 4. The eighteenth century 5. Interference, polarization, and waves in the early nineteenth century 6. Ether and matter 7. Waves and rays. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index
